Have you ever stopped to think how often doors play a central role in Joss Whedon’s cult show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Buffy kicked the door open when it comes to strong female-fronted genre shows (not to mention realistic portrayals of LGBT characters on TV) but that’s because, as this video shows, she spent plenty ...

After over 180 tweets and 215 characters shared, a month-long project comes to an end.

Last year I compiled a supercut titled “A Place for Us: Gay Men on Screen” which traced the various common ways gay men are usually represented on screen, from the flamboyant sissy to the AIDS victim, from the queer villain to ...

My favorite book so far this year is Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, a novel I’ve grown to describe as a sudden gentle caress in the dark: unexpected, frightening, moving, and discomforting though not altogether unwelcome. Yanagihara’s mammoth novel (it clocks ...

Thanks to the ever gracious host of The Film Experience Nathaniel for letting me recap what ended up being a fantastic (if ill-fated and criminally underwatched) second season of Michael Lannam and Andrew Haigh’s HBO show Looking. Below you’ll find links to recaps of all 10 season 2 episodes:

“With the same peremptory familiarity did many of us who would become gay men feel addressed by the Broadway musical, which hailed us as directly as if it had been calling out our names, and met us so well that in finding ourselves called for, we seemed to find ...

I’m obsessed with Richard LaGravenese’s film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years. Not only does it feature a great pair of performances courtesy of Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, but it succeeds in ways that perhaps its own stage productions never could. And it does so by embracing the visual language of film. ...

American Sniper
Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Selma
Best Picture
Best Music (Original Song)

Can a film be both a recruitment video as well as a cautionary tale? Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and Ava DuVernay’s Selma present us with just that, though arguably within two very different contexts.

Eastwood’s Sniper focuses on Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history ...